Comrade Smolyaaninov! I call your attention to an article (published recently in *Izvestiya*? or in *Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn'*?) by Belyakov on the Narofominstaya manufacture[259]. Collect all the previous polemics on this matter. Go into it carefully. Study the data. Tell me the conclusion.

The matter seems to be an important one.

Greetings! Lenin

1921

Written in May, after the 6th

First published in 1959

in Lenin's Sbornik XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript